Monthly Archives: July 2004

First Week Over

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I’ve now spent my first week in my new job. So far so good. I’m enjoy­ing it.

I’ve man­aged to fix a couple of bugs, imple­ment part of a quick proof of concept, and help resolve some really tricky build issues. Every­one seems pretty friendly and I’m get­ting on great with my imme­di­ate colleagues.

I got a nice shiny new PC (though I need more memory, which is on it’s way). They are going to get me a taller chair and desk which is great. I’ve yet to move my CD col­lec­tion into the office :-)

I’ve heard via IM/email from a couple of ex-colleagues this week which was nice.

Long Time Since…

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It’s been a long time since I blogged. A lot has been hap­pen­ing.
Not least that I was made redund­ant from my last job! For­tu­nately I star­ted a new job today! I now work for Sx3 — Ser­vice and Sys­tems Solu­tions Ltd in the Applic­a­tion Solu­tions Group as an R&D Programmer/Analyst.

Today was my first day in the new job. Every­one seems friendly enough and I got a good over­view intro­duc­tion to the sys­tems from my team leader. There’s a lot to pick up, but I’ll soon get into my stride.
My last com­pany, which I had thought had been taken over by Zendor, turned out to be still Eunite. Such that the powers that be were able to close down Eunite as unprof­it­able but keep Zendor run­ning as a viable busi­ness, ‘trim­ming’ 37 jobs in the pro­cess. Lots of people (I think most) were able to find pos­i­tions in the sis­ter and par­ent com­pan­ies, but some of us were out on our ears. Of course, as these things often go, it has turned out to be a bless­ing; in fact the kick up the bum I have been need­ing to up sticks and move on. It just didn’t feel like a bless­ing at the time.

In other news, my pre­cious bike was stolen a few weeks ago, just at the time that ‘they’ decided to close down my local train sta­tion for seven weeks, and a couple of days after I’d found out I was being made redund­ant! Whilst the insur­ance com­pany had me sor­ted out with a replace­ment bike within a few days, I haven’t yet rid­den it in earn­est. First there was the per­ceived lack of secur­ity at work: another bike was stolen the fol­low­ing week. Then when I decided to take the new bike out for a gentle ride I man­aged to break it! The replace­ment part only arrived this weekend.

A few days ago I had to say good­bye to some good friends who in truth I will prob­ably not man­age to keep in touch with, des­pite the best of inten­tions, which was much harder than I would have predicted.

I still have lots to write about: Patti Smith was awe­some, a few dozen books reviews, con­sid­er­ably more new CDs, my com­plete lack of abil­ity to con­trib­ute any­thing to WordPress for far too long, etc.
I shall try to get back into blog­gin regularly.